Weber State University, an open-admission university, is dedicated to helping students of all ages and backgrounds realize their goals and aspirations. For us, this isn’t a platitude—we serve nearly 30,000 students from some of the most ethnically and economically diverse cities in Utah, the Intermountain West, and beyond. The University cultivates remarkably personalized teaching and mentoring, scholarly endeavors, creative activities, and engaged learning throughout our 225 undergraduate certificate and degree programs, 15 graduate degrees, and a first, recently added doctoral program. Along with its mission of higher education, the University is a community leader. Whether it is volunteer service, outreach, economic development, or just making Utah a better place to live, Weber State does it all in collaboration with our community partners.

WSU’s central campus in Ogden, Utah, is 35 miles north of Salt Lake City and situated in the foothills of the spectacular Wasatch Mountains, where outdoor recreation opportunities abound. As the cultural center for northern Utah, with state of the art facilities across campus, Weber State University, and particularly the Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities, has developed a well-known speakers’ series, and regularly features world-class performers, artists, and touring groups in the Kimball Visual Arts Center, the Val A. Browning Center for the Performing Arts, and Elizabeth Hall, home to the humanities.

The Dean of the Lindquist College of Arts and Humanities serves as academic leader for the College within a university environment that fosters collaboration and shared governance. The College is one of the region’s leaders of student-centered teaching and research that investigates the human experience. It aims to educate students to become responsible global citizens who are creative and critical artists, performers, and communicators. As the largest college on campus, with more than 100 full-time faculty, it serves nearly 2,000 undergraduate majors and 200 graduate students. It offers undergraduate degree programs in five areas: Communication, English, Foreign Languages, Performing Arts (dance, music, and theatre), and Visual Art and Design. Master’s degrees are offered in Communication and English.

Minimum Qualifications

Weber State University seeks an innovative and visionary dean who has:
· Earned a terminal degree in a discipline represented in the College.
· At least three years’ experience at the level of department chair, associate dean, or higher.
· A record of academic achievements and the educational credentials to warrant appointment as a full professor within the College.
· A successful record of experience and leadership in academic administration including evaluation of faculty in the tenure and promotion processes. 

Preferred Qualifications

· The breadth of experience necessary to represent and serve as an advocate for all the programs within the College: Communication, English, Foreign Languages, Performing Arts, and Visual Art and Design.
· The skills to implement a strategic plan which promotes:
1) Access to Excellence: providing access to students of all abilities, while remaining committed to high academic achievement;
2) Curriculum and Teaching: designing programs and advising practices for traditional and non-traditional students with a renewed emphasis on high-impact teaching and student success via stackable certifications and degrees;
3) Graduate Outcomes: emphasizing the powerful combination of liberal arts learning and professional skills (technical, entrepreneurship, management) for active civic engagement, and enriching, sustainable careers.
· The ability to guide and support the varied creative productions and extracurricular activities of the College.
· The experience and commitment to lead successful fundraising through external efforts and by articulating and prioritizing development initiatives within the College.
· The ability to foster a supportive environment in which a diverse faculty, staff, and student body are successful.
· Demonstrated commitment to high-quality teaching and engagement with contemporary pedagogical developments: face-to-face, online, hybrid, study abroad, interdisciplinary, and community engaged learning.
· Demonstrated understanding and support of diverse scholarship and creative activities.
· Demonstrated record in support of diversity initiatives, including LGBTQ and underrepresented groups in higher education.
· Demonstrated vision, strategic leadership and organizational management skills.
· A record of positive collaborative group decision making with multiple constituencies.
· Demonstrated experience with large, complex budgets.

The salary will be competitive for a dean appointment at a comprehensive university. We hope to have the new dean in place June 1, 2020, or soon thereafter.

To apply: interested parties are encouraged to complete the online application at https://jobs.weber.edu/ and attach a current CV, a detailed letter addressing how the candidate’s experience matches the position requirements and the institution’s mission, and the names and contact information for five references.

Applications received by February 15, 2020 will be assured of receiving full consideration. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Criminal background check required as a condition of employment.